San Jose Earthquakes - Inter Miami CF (Wednesday, 5/14) pre/in/postgame thread [R]

Messi in San Jose: the soccer star waves to fans outside his Santana Row hotel balcony. #Messi is in town ahead of an @InterMiamiCF vs @SJEarthquakes game on Wednesday ⚽️ @Telemundo48 @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/vaswJY8Jg1

— Nathalie Vera (@NathalieVeraTV) May 13, 2025

 

Everyone knows that nobody stays up past 11 in San Jose.

 

Pretty exciting that the greatest soccer player to ever play the game is in San Jose and will be playing at little PPP...so glad they didn't move this one to Levi's. I'll be watching from Washington and looking forward to it.

And thanks David Beckham for making it happen.

Covering the chain link fencing in black plastic seems lame. Don't see how they can claim this is for safety reasons when crowds walk that way to and from the stadium, on gameday. Not sure why they'd do that for this one.

Go Quakes!

 

Sharks opponents started staying there a few years back, and then Quakes opponents followed suit after the downtown Fairmont shuttered. My understanding (from my barber in the former Fairmont) is that the NHL players found Santana Row more engaging than downtown for nightlife.

 

Not as exciting as Gareth Bale, though!

 

lol...this is the greatest game in the history of Quakes soccer, just ask the Quakes FO.

Never mind those two cup finals, the greatest comeback ever, etc., etc.

 

I guess not only the pink ones. There will be those with light blue/white stripes and dark blue/burgundy stripes. And I hate all those teams.

 

My bad.... And on a school night!

 

True.

 

A true superstar would hang his own kid over the balcony railing... I'm just saying

Messi in San Jose: the soccer star waves to fans outside his Santana Row hotel balcony. #Messi is in town ahead of an @InterMiamiCF vs @SJEarthquakes game on Wednesday ⚽️ @Telemundo48 @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/vaswJY8Jg1

— Nathalie Vera (@NathalieVeraTV) May 13, 2025

 

@falvo just posted this at the top of the page...but yeah, MJ was a strange one. Wonder what ever became of "Blanket?"

 

Days later, I'm still absolutely dying at Jordi Alba's 'defending' in Inter Miami's latest loss.

He goes to quadruple team an opponent in the corner for no reason at all and leaves a giant gap in the middle of the field.

Just all-time bad decision-making -- but peak comedy. pic.twitter.com/0egDC6BhuT

— Joseph Lowery (@joeclowery) May 13, 2025

 

It's to block the view of the screen, probably because of the city wanting to prevent a crowd from gathering on the sidewalk and spilling into the street.

 

Well, if it's for public safety reasons, I suppose that's good. Not sure that this would block the screen view (since it's well above the fence line) and why not simply turn the street facing screen off, but maybe they'll do that too.

Glad to see the city taking more of an interest in pedestrian safety.

 

Blanket?

What or who is that?

 

I think the screen, as seen from the Epicenter area or whatever they call that area, is too valuable an asset for paid attendees. It'd be a bummer to turn it off.

 

That was the name of Michael Jackson's baby, the one he precariously dangled over the railing.

 

I think so too, best to have a few extra security out there moving folks along, maybe.

 

Best didn't have any security when he was staggering up Santa Cruz Ave on the way to Vasona.

 

God rest his soul.

 

Well, aren't you special...